Healthy Connections Community Health Network is excited to announce we are openiDng a third Hot Springs clinic to better serve our patients.
The new clinic will open on Monday, July 26. It will be located at 208 McAuley Ct. – Suite B, on the campus of Arkansas Center for Surgical Excellence. This new location will become our new home for Cardiology, Podiatry, and Evolve Behavioral Health Services and Medication Management.
This new location will be in addition to the two clinics currently being used in Hot Springs. The Hot Springs Central clinic at 3604 Central Ave., will continue to be the home for Primary Care/Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Women’s Health, and more. The Hot Springs Chippewa clinic at 1723 Malvern Ave., will continue to be the home for dental and primary care/family medicine.
Keep checking www.healthy-connections.org/hotsprings for the latest updates on the move. We’ll give you an exact date as soon as we know for certain when that will be.
The newly renovated space on McAuley Court will give Healthy Connections additional space to ensure the quality care and comfort of our patients. Making the move to McAuley court will be podiatrist Dr. Richard Bennett.
Also at McAuley Court will be the entire staff of Evolve, which treats patients for behavioral health through individual, group, and family therapy, in addition to medication management. Providers moving to McAuley include Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW), Nicole Meggers, Heath Larner, and Tosha Honey, along with Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Sakinah Shaw.
All of our other providers will remain at their current location.
If you have questions or aren’t sure where to find your provider, please call us at 888-710-8220 and we’ll double-check to make sure you’re going to the right place.
For the safety of our patients, visitors, and staff, the Healthy Connections Community Health Network will continue to require masks in accordance with current Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommendations.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Healthy Connections, Inc., and its CEO Tony Calandro were selected as finalists for the Nonprofit Organization of the Year awards.
Healthy Connections, Inc., and CEO Tony Calandro have been named finalists in the Arkansas Business 33rd Annual Business of the Year awards.
Healthy Connections, Inc., is a finalist for the Nonprofit Organization of the Year, while Calandro is a finalist for the Nonprofit Executive of the Year. The winners of each category will be revealed at the awards ceremony and published in a special supplement of Arkansas Business on March 3, 2021.
Finalists were selected by an outside panel of judges and coordinated by Arkansas Business. Thirty-two finalists are selected from across the state in seven categories. See the complete list of finalists at www.ArkansasBusiness.com/ABOY.
Healthy Connections is a Mena-based nonprofit community health network with clinic locations in Mena, Hot Springs, Little Rock, Malvern, Arkadelphia, Mount Ida, and De Queen. Since its founding as a home-visiting program in 1998, Healthy Connections has been able to provide much-needed health, dental, behavioral health, and social services to families of every lifestyle.
Over the past year, Healthy Connections took its services to more places than ever before. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Healthy Connections provided completely-free testing at stops in 10 different Arkansas counties, including some without clinic locations like Texarkana, Gurdon, and Nashville. These day-long events took place in blazing heat and driving rainstorms as employees braved the elements to ensure anyone who wanted to be tested could be tested.
The year also saw an expansion in services with the addition of the Health For Life Clinic and Evolve Behavioral Health and Medication Management. Health For Life Clinic, which provides addiction treatment and testing and treatment for HIV/AIDS patients in Little Rock, joined the community health network in February and has been among the busiest clinics in the network. Evolve brought individual, family, and group mental health therapy to patients across west and central Arkansas just before the pandemic took off.
Cars line up at the mass testing event held in Texarkana in July.
In January, Healthy Connections opened the Franklin Community Health Center in the parking lot of the old Franklin Elementary School in Little Rock. This neighborhood clinic location provided much-requested medical services in a location that was considered a medical desert. And when the pandemic hit, this clinic was at the heart of the Covid-19 testing program.
In May as stay-at-home orders were being issued throughout the state, Healthy Connections quickly expanded its telehealth program to make sure as many patients as possible could be seen from the comfort of their own home.
“We are honored to be recognized alongside the other nonprofit organizations in this category,” Calandro said. “This year has been like no other. Our employees have faced many challenges and consistently found ways to overcome them, ensuring that our patients continue to receive the highest level of care.”
In the Nonprofit Organization of the Year category, Healthy Connections joins Arkansas Research Alliance, Arkansas Immigrant Defense, Children’s Advocacy of Benton County, and The Venture Center as finalists. Healthy Connections was also selected as a finalist in 2018 and 2019.
Calandro joined Healthy Connections 10 years ago and has overseen growth from about 3,000 patients served to more than 23,000 last year.
“I am excited to be a finalist for this award, but know that it would not be possible without the hard work and dedication of our Healthy Connections staff,” Calandro said. “My philosophy has always been to provide employees with the tools and resources they need to do their jobs then stand back and watch them succeed. This award is a reflection of the job they did throughout the past year.”
In the Nonprofit Executive of the Year category, Calandro is joined by Shannon Boshears of UA-Pulaski Technical College Foundation, Wayne Miller of The Venture Center, Christian O’Neal of the UA-Little Rock Foundation, and Fred Scarborough of the Arkansas Children’s Foundation.
Learn more about Healthy Connections at www.healthy-connections.org.
Special hours are in effect this week for clinics across the Healthy Connections Community Health Network.
All clinics will be closed on Thursday, November 26, 2020, for Thanksgiving.
The following clinics will be re-open on Friday, November 27 2020:
Health For Life Clinic, Little Rock Franklin, Arkadelphia, Hot Springs Central, and Mount Ida clinics are closed Friday and will re-open at their normal operating hours on Monday, November 30, 2020. See the complete list of clinic locations and hours at www.healthy-connections.org/locations.
This Thanksgiving Day, we at Healthy Connections give thanks for all of our providers, staff, patients, friends, and families.